Comprehension and Written Expression Year 4

Comprehension and Written Expression Year 4
Author: Alan Horsfield
Publisher: Pascal Press
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781864412796

Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 4 is essenti al for any student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It all ows students to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolating relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and using tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find informa tion. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students t o gain confidence in reading different materials. When the studen t completes the exercises in this book, she/he will have worked through a number of question types from a variety of text types. Rather than giv e a range of question types based on each passage, the focus in this boo k will be on developing the student's skill with a particular question t ype. The book is structured so that if there is a weakness then the stud ent can concentrate on that particular weakness and become competent wit hout working through passages that may not contribute to the student's p rogress. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises and extracts a wide varie ty of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer a nd sentence completion extracts from many different literary an d factual text types a lift-out answer section.

Albert's Birthday

Albert's Birthday
Author: Leslie Tryon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 148141903X

Albert, the indomitable, hardworking, dedicated duck who has appeared in seven previous books by Leslie Tryon, has been a busy duck indeed. He has built an alphabet for the school playground (Albert's Alphabet), directed the school play (Albert's Play), organized a school field trip (Albert's Field Trip), and coached the Pleasant Valley baseball team (Albert's Ballgame). He has helped with the big Thanksgiving celebration (Albert's Thanksgiving), gathered the kids together to meet a special visitor on Christmas Eve (Albert's Christmas), and solved the mystery of the missing pumpkins (Albert's Halloween). And now it's time for Albert to be celebrated in return. It's his birthday, and Patsy Pig has organized his surprise party as only she can, right down to the last detail. But will the one detail she forgets ruin the whole affair? Once again Leslie Tryon brings us Albert and the Pleasant Valley gang in a story full of warmth and humor, accompanied by her marvelously detailed artwork.

Albert's Gift for Grandmother

Albert's Gift for Grandmother
Author: Barbara Williams
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763620974

As the only one in the Turtle family without a gift for Grandmother, Albert is discouraged until be remembers one very special gift that only he can give.

Major Characters in American Fiction

Major Characters in American Fiction
Author: Jack Salzman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 1591
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1466881933

Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level. Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing--Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.

Alex's Adventures in Numberland

Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-04-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1408809591

The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck.

But For These

But For These
Author: Theodore Lockhart
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1457565218

I am the great grandson of a black Baptist preacher, Alfred “Parson” Williams, founding pastor, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Tampa, Florida. I want to share with you the path I remember following with the aid of helpers, to my personal fulfillment as a minister in the cohort of United Methodist preachers. I had not thought that much about my maternal great-grandfather. And certainly, not at all about a career as a preacher! Through my sharing what I recall of my path, my intent and hope is that the reader will see that his/her path, like mine, turns on forward movement. The movement of oneself in a chosen goal-centered direction that is neither deterred by obstacles nor thrown off course by crises-yet-to-unfold. A movement of oneself in which your focus is sharpened by what you take as the source of your vision and power to move. For me, I saw my Source as God, The Almighty. In any direction of your movement, your helpers can and will appear either as an animate or inanimate entity, as like or unlike you racially or culturally or by some other measure. Yours is to move forward in awareness of your own auto-correct power to review and revise decisions you will have made yesterday or yesteryear.

A Companion to Albert the Great

A Companion to Albert the Great
Author: Irven Resnick
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2013-03-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004239731

Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus; d. 1280) is one of the most prolific authors of the Middle Ages, and the only scholar to be known as “the Great” during his own lifetime. As the only Scholastic to to have commented upon all the works of Aristotle, Albert is also known as the Universal Doctor (Doctor Universalis) for his encyclopedic intellect, which enabled him to make important contributions not only to Christian theology but also to natural science and philosophy. The contributions to this omnibus volume will introduce students of philosophy, science, and theology to the current state of research and multiple perspectives on the work of Albert the Great. Contributors include Jan A. Aertsen, Henryk Anzulewicz, Benedict M. Ashley, Miguel de Asúa, Steven Baldner, Amos Bertolacci, Thérèse Bonin, Maria Burger, Markus Führer, Dagmar Gottschall, Jeremiah Hackett, Anthony Lo Bello, Isabelle Moulin, Timothy Noone, Mikołaj Olszewski, B.B. Price, Irven M. Resnick, Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo, H. Darrel Rutkin, Steven C. Snyder, Michael W. Tkacz, Martin J. Tracey, Bruno Tremblay, David Twetten, Rosa E. Vargas and Gilla Wöllmer

History, Memory and War

History, Memory and War
Author: Steven Trout
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0803294646

A collection of essays that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of the day.

A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882

A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882
Author: Frederick Burkhardt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 762
Release: 1994-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521434232

This Calendar is a catalogue of the letters the editors of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin have found to date. Information on the source and location of each letter is given, together with a brief summary of the content. First published in 1985, the Calendar has been amended to take account of recently-discovered material and re-interpretations or re-dating of known letters. A new supplement lists over 1000 amendments to the main body of the text, together with over 500 addenda relating to newly- discovered material.

Cather Studies, Volume 13

Cather Studies, Volume 13
Author: Cather Studies
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2021-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496224612

"Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that Willa Cather's writing career was shaped during the crucial years in Pittsburgh and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there"--